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Banned deucer.
In terms of sets, Genesect is capable of running just about anything and doing it well. Thanks to Download alongside its strong mixed offensive stats, Genesect can viably use both physical and special sets, making it especially hard to predict and especially easy to tech with, being generally capable of preparing for just about anything; AV Urshifu getting annoying? Slap a Choice Specs on there and KO right through the Spd boost with Steel Beam! Specs Necrozma getting in your way with Heat Wave? Just eat it with Occa! Scarf Darmanitan-G koing you with Flare Blitz? Outspeed it with your own Scarf! This much versatility leaves true Genesect answers being limited down to mostly bulky Fire types that can eat any single hit from Genesect and KO through potential Occa Berries between the likes of Arcanine, Heatran, and specially defensive/Wacan Berry Volcanion, as well as hyper bulky threats that can eat mostly anything Genesect throws at them like Registeel, Celesteela, Chansey, and Corsola-G.
On the other hand, while all of these things may make Genesect sound like some kind of unbeatable, unpredictable menace, the opportunity cost of switching between these sets also has to be considered. Running Scarf means you can no longer beat bulky offensive threats like Necrozma, Urshifu, Aggron, Sawk, etc, and can't use Extreme Speed to deal with Custap users like Sylveon, Moltres-G, and Primarina. Running bulky Occa Berry means you no longer outspeed Urshifu, Spectrier, Darmanitan-G, Naganadel, etc. Even changing out each individual move comes with its own set of costs and benefits; you need Ice Beam for mons like Zygarde, Garchomp, and Landorus, but also need Gunk Shot for mons like Sylveon, Tapu Fini, and Primarina, and also need something to 2HKO Aggron, and Extreme Speed, and Shift Gear, etc etc. Overall, each set of Genesect comes with its weighted set of gains and losses that result from using them, so while it may be scary to pick against in preview, no singular Genesect set is ever gonna beat as much as something like the typical AV Urshifu or Specs Necrozma, so while Genesect overall may be very strong, it is certainly not without its flaws.
For this suspect test, we will be using the regular 1v1 ladder, so you must create a new account that begins with 1SECT to qualify. Genesect will be legal on the ladder. The Deadline for the Genesect Suspect is Thursday, June 10th, 11:59 EST (GMT -5)
This suspect shall be reusing the sliding scale system from the Victini suspect, being:
GXE | Minimum Games |
75 | 50 |
75.3 | 49 |
75.6 | 48 |
75.9 | 47 |
76.2 | 46 |
76.5 | 45 |
76.8 | 44 |
77.1 | 43 |
77.4 | 42 |
77.7 | 41 |
78 | 40 |
78.3 | 39 |
78.6 | 38 |
78.9 | 37 |
79.2 | 36 |
79.5 | 35 |
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